APC AP8959NA3 manual

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base Contents i About This Guide -- 1 Purpose of the Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Related Documents and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 PowerNet MIB Structure -- 2 Traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 1 About This Guide Purpose of the Guide Use this guide to assist you in managing APC ® products that can be monitored and configured with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SN MP). Related Document s and Files This guide describes how to use the PowerNet ® M IB only . • See the User ’s Guide[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 2 PowerNet MIB S tructure Tr a p s Management Cards, APC dev ices, and APC agents can send traps to a Network Management System (NMS) when specific ev ents occur . T he trap receiver definitions that a particular Management Card, device, or agent uses determine whic h NMSs can receive traps. The MIB pr[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 3 • Configure the access for an NMS to an SNMP community as write access, read access, or no access (SNMPv1). St ructure of the OID hierarchy in the SNMP browser The PowerNet MIB fits into a hierarchic al structure within your SNMP browser ’s categories. For example, for an HP Open View for Windows[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 4 There are three categories under [product s] : • [hardware] contains sub-categories for each ty pe of hardware product that you can manage using PowerNet MIB OIDs. • [software] contains one sub-category , [powerNetSubAgent], of read- only OIDs to monitor a software PowerNet agent only . • [syst[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 5 Manage Agent s and Management Cards Locate the OIDs T o find the OIDs to perform the tasks described in Monitor a PowerNet Agent , use your MIB browser to select, in order , the following OID categories: • [apc] • [product s ] • [software] • [powerNetSubAgent] • [powerNetSoftwareSystem] or [...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 6 V iew information about an agent Use the [powerNetSoftwareSystem] OIDs to view information about the agent, including its version number , the technology that it uses to implement the PowerNet MIB, and the length of time it has b een running continuously on the network . powerNetSoftwareSystemDescrip[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 7 • Configure the date and time on a Ma nagement Card or other device. mconfigBOOTPEnabled mconfigNumTrapReceivers {mconfigTrapReceiverTable} [mconfigTrapReceiverEntry] trapIndex receiverAddr communityString severity (obsolete: always returns 0) acceptThisReceiver receiveTrapType (obsolete: always re[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 8 Enable APC trap s to use a specific argument type Use the [mtrapargs] OIDs to enable APC trap s to use an argument of a specific type (integer , I P address, octet string, Gauge, or T imeT icks), which may not be defined as part of the APC MIB. mtrapsapargsInteger mtrapsapargsIpAddress mtrapsapargsSt[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 9 The [mfiletransferConfigFTP] subcategory has these O IDs: mfiletransferConfigFTPServerAddress mfiletransferConfigFTPServerUser mfiletransferConfigFTPServerPassword Perform the file transfer . Use the O ID in the [mfiletransferControl] category to download the file from the TFTP server or from the FTP[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 10 PowerNet MIB T rap s Overview This section describes how to define whic h NMSs can receive PowerNet MIB traps. No device can generate all tr aps, and no NMS can receive a trap until at least one of the four trap receiver definitions exists for the device. By default, all APC devices, Management Card[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 11 How T o Define T rap Receivers Y ou can define trap receiv ers as follows: • Each Management Card or other APC hard ware device can send traps to up to six trap receivers, but you can define only four through the APC PowerNet MIB. Y ou can define the other two through the user inte rface of the Ma[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 12 Index A Agents managing 5 of hardware devices 6 rebooting 7 viewing information about 6 B BOOTP value showing whether BOOTP is enabled 6 D Date, setting for a ca rd or device 6 F Files, transferring 8 L Locating the OIDs agents 5 Management Cards 5 M Managing agents 5 agents of a hardware device 6 M[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 13 Traps defining trap receivers 11 enabling argument types fo r 8 V Version of an agent 6[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 14 APC W orldwide Customer Support Customer support for this or any other APC product is available at no charge in any of the following ways: • Visit the APC W eb site to access documents in the AP C Knowledge Base and to submit customer support requests. – www .apc.com (Corporate Headquarters) Con[...]

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    ® REFERENCE GUIDE Management Information Base 15 Copyright Entire contents copyright 2006 Americ an Power Conversion Corporation. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whol e or in part without permission is prohibited. APC, the APC logo, Master Switch, and PowerNet are trademarks of American Power Conversion Corporat ion. All other trademarks, pro[...]